Belated Update

I haven't posted in over a week, unfortunately not due to my fault - internet was down a couple of days and I've been tired the rest. So hopefully we'll get back on track with some GS Updates and Achievement whoring!

Well since the last update I've probably played 30-40 games, so I'm not going to update them all. I've been loading up a few to get them registered on http://my360stats.com, you can find me here. I've always kept a spreadsheet of all my acheivements - this website thankfully does it for me and other people, allowing easy game comparison and the oppertunity to see how well I'm doing against the average in each game. If you've a gamertag, go register yourself over there. Every update they take the info from you last 16, non-zero GS, games played. Updates are every 4 days, unless your profile gets viewed, then it's every 24 hours.

Well suffice to say, I've now passed the 30k barrier! =D I've also got 1000+ total achievements, so two large milestones this week. GS: 29985 -> 32865. I havent completed any games in this past week, but I've played a few new ones (both owned and rented), and got some more GS on others:

Shadowrun	0 -> 60 of 1000 6 of 50 Achievements
Battlefield 2: MC	0 -> 210 of 1000 10 of 46 Achievements
NBA 2K7	0 -> 525 of 1000 25 of 50 Achievements
Mad Tracks	0 of 200 0 of 12 Achievements
X-Men:TheOfficialGame	0 -> 410 of 1000 9 of 16 Achievements
LEGO Star Wars II	70 -> 250 of 1000 7 of 29 Achievements
Tetris Evolution	185 -> 280 of 1000 17 of 40 Achievements
NHL 2K7	360 -> 535 of 1000 11 of 17 Achievements
Football Manager 2006	320 -> 325 of 1000 28 of 50 Achievements
Test Drive Unlimited	70 -> 360 of 1000 22 of 46 Achievements
Rayman Raving Rabbids	200 of 1000 4 of 16 Achievements
Aegis Wing	0 -> 45 of 200 4 of 12 Achievements
Gears of War	80 of 1000 7 of 49 Achievements
WSOP: TOC	0 -> 55 of 1000 3 of 35 Achievements
American Wasteland	570 -> 900 of 1000 44 of 45 Achievements
Pro Evolution Soccer 6	120 -> 360 of 1000 9 of 23 Achievements
Tony Hawk's Project 8	0 -> 50 of 1000 6 of 49 Achievements
Rainbow Six® Vegas	0 of 1000 0 of 36 Achievements

I've not going into detail about each game this time, mainly because it's 5:55am and I've not been to bed yet, but it has been fun trying out a few new games and rentals. Rayman was fun, R6 was shite. X:Men was good, I'm still figuring out Shadowrun.

Completed XBLA:	7 / 20
Completed Retail:	17 / 65
GS Completion %:	43.03%
GS % (Non-Demo):	47.12%

Country Rank:	588/149171
World Rank:	3312/1147024

27th May: GS Update (1)

Well it's definately time for a GS update. Thankfully I've finished all my exams for this academic year, thus I can devote some time to 360 gaming =D In the past week, I've rented a few games and got pissed off at a few others.

American Wasteland (of the Tony Hawk fame) is my first attempt at playing a skateboarding game in quite a while. I've completed a few during the genre, so I looked forward to playing this. Sure enough, it's still classic Hawk. Lots of grinding, manual-ing and grabbing galore. There are two main modes - Story and Classic. Classic involves 6 retro skate parks, with 10 goals each (score, collect secret tape, collect letters, etc.). Story takes you through the new storyline - help build a new skatepark after coming to LA from HickVille. Sometimes the story line isnt clear, but its good Hawk and worth playing if you like the series. The achievements seem alright too - Every 10 goals in classic, playing each level online, getting a score above 1000 on each map in free skate, story mode, everything 100%. I've still a few maps to get and story mode to do, but 100% seems a bit of a bitch - you have to do every special gap and trick in the game. Blegh. But I'll enjoy this the longer I play it hopefully!

Full Auto again - I tried for some online acheives, but the people online were being assholes, purposely driving behind to get the kills. On one race, it was Class C restricted, but this guy got 70 seconds ahead in one lap. WTF??? Well I also did a section on single player, so still a lot to go, but it's fun.

Played the demo of Centipede and Millipede. It's classic retro. I didnt like it then, I'm still not keen on it now. If this game was 200MS points, then maybe.


Saw a few people on my list had Heavy Weapon, so I played the demo. It's quite fun - your standard 2D sidescrolling shoot and kill sort of game. Plenty of levels to choose from. This would be better if they'd made points = money to buy upgrades, rather than 1 upgrade per level. I'd get this from XBLA if I had some spare MS points, but I'm saving up for Undertow.

Small Arms is a 2D style fighting game along the same lines as Super Smash Brothers, but with guns. To be completely honest, even from the demo, they overcomplicated the controls. I'm not going to be getting this with my points.

I booted up FM2006 to see what else I could do. During playing, I got a message from someone random to try and get some online achievements. Did a few of those, and he told me that he got his ~500GS from the game was to basically take control of as many teams possible in a one division game, then leave it on overnight. I did so, but forgot to disable the option for the xbox auto shutting down after 6hrs. But I got a fair chunk of achievements during that time =D Need to do it a bit more for a few more GS.

Still on the quest for Catan achievements. I've done another 5/6 games getting the largest army card, so only a few more for that. Then it's a case of about 100 wins online (or 1000 points worth). Given that a full game can last 40 mins, that achievement is a long time away!

I tried demos of the new XBLA games Xevious and Rush'n Attack. Wasn't impressed, even for retro games. I've never heard of these games before, and they didnt want me to buy them. Come on MS, where's Undertow?

Tried some more single player CoD3. The controls are still giving me grief.



Another batch of Pro Evo. I'm now about 26 games into my Premiership Season - another 12 or so to go until I finish that achievement.

20th May: GS Update

Played some more VT3 - got to world rank 200. It still seems ok - the tournaments are getting harder though.


Some BF2:MC to start with. Played some single player and online multiplayer - didnt get far in single player, though enjoyed multiplayer. The server I was playing on just kept playing the same map over and over :S

Still trying to get some of the NHL 2K7 achievements. It's easy enough to play on Pro difficulty and win if you set the sliders the correct way, but for some reason, the 5 Pro shutouts in a row achievement wasn't unlocking. Got the Pro Season win/best record achievement though.

Also played some Pro evo. Still going through my England league, now 15 games in. Tried to also get my GK to no.1 on the scoring list. At the minute he's 3rd, behind by two strikers =D

I took FM06 out of the shrink wrap today, hoping it would be a good FM game. Now I'm the sort of person who enjoys his manager games, as long as they aren't complicated, and you can do a season in about an hour. Unfortunately, the controls on FM06 are appalling, they try and fit too much text on the screen, and it'll take a good solid 24hrs to do a season. Bleh. I did the easy achievements - win a game, keep a clean sheet, get a hat-trick. Also got messaged to play some games online, so I got the 5 games, win cup and win league achievements there too. This game has too many loading screens, and is not customisable enough.

Put in Tetris:Evolution for some good old single player. Its just like I remember - hours on end, just making some lines disappear. They've put in some new modes, which make the game better =D Though it is pretty easy on standard mode to go up levels, thus making it harder, quicker. I was able to get some of the achievements - a couple of golds and some bronzes - in a couple of hours.

Day results - Opened up a new game, and played some co-op.

My GS changed thusly: 26285 -> 26660

Tetris Evolution: 30 -> 185
Virtua Tennis: 60 -> 70
NHL 2K7: 235 -> 360
Football Manager 2006: 0 -> 85

Completed XBLA:	6 / 19
Completed Retail:	16 / 48
GS Completion %:	45.85%
GS % (Non-Demo):	50.73%

Country Rank:	1043/137696
World Rank:	5932/1141135